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The Florists' Review 



Adodbt 27, 1914, 



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pect a busy season this fall in fruit 

 and shade trees and also in shrubs. 

 The unusually dry summer has killed 

 oflf a great deal of their young stock. 



J. J. B. 



ENTOMOLOGIST'S EEPOET. 



(Continued from pagre 11.) 



Permit me to call your attention to a 

 few troubles, which, though fortunately 

 still uncommon, may at any time cause 

 considerable damage. 



Oeneral Injury from Mites. 



The common red spider, Tetranychus 

 telarius Linn., of the greenhouse, often 

 causes considerable damage to plants 

 outdoors, particularly coniferous trees 

 and shrubs. 



Choice specimen trees on the lawn 

 and in the nursery are now frequently 

 sprayed with kerosene emulsion, soap 

 and water, and nicotine solutions to 

 kill the red spider. 



A sister species, the 2-spotted mite, 

 Tetranychus bimaculatus Harv., also 

 greatly injures chestnut and other 

 broad-leaved trees. Both are worse in 

 dry seasons, as wet weather is unfavor- 

 able to mites. Nevertheless, during the 

 present season in Connecticut, with an 

 almost unprecedented amount of rain- 

 fall, certain kinds of mites have flour- 

 ished outdoors. 



These mites are not insects, but be- 

 long to the family acarina, and, like 

 the true spiders, have eight legs and 

 belong to the order arachnida. Many 

 of the mites are pests of plants and 

 animals. 



Mite Attacking California Privet. 



A short hedge of California privet 

 in my own garden this season was at- 

 tacked by a mite of the genus phyllo- 

 coptes. Apparently it is a new species, 

 and it is doubtful if any mite has been 

 previously recorded from California 

 privet unless, perhaps, red spider. 



Nothing unusual was noticed on this 

 hedge in 1913, but the first growth in 

 1914 had peculiar, slender shoots with 

 narrow leaves curled backward. On 

 examining them with a hand lens, the 

 under side of each leaf was found to 

 be literally covered with small, elon- 

 gated, crawling mites. 



Up to July 1 apparently all terminal 

 leaves on this hedge were infested and 

 curled. On my return from a vacation 

 late in July the hedge presented a 



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changed appearance, as a number of 

 the stronger shoots had the normal ap- 

 pearance, and the mites had disappeared 

 from all the leaves. 



Mite on Florists' Stock. 



A mite, Tarsonemus pallidus Banks, 

 attacking cyclamens, chrysanthemums 

 and snapdragons, was first brought to 

 my attention November 12, 1912, 

 when an assistant who was inspecting 

 imported stock at a florist's in Bridge- 

 port, Conn., brought to the laboratory 

 some chrysanthemum blooms which, 

 though freshly cut, had many dead and 

 brown petals scattered through them. 

 These blooms were carefully examined 

 by both botanists and entomologists, 

 and the only parasites found were num- 

 bers of small, white or transparent 

 mites at the bases of the petals. These 

 mites seemed to be the cause of the 

 trouble. 



December 12, 1913, another assistant, 

 while inspecting imported stock at a 



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private place in Hartford, was shown 

 cyclamens which had produced no 

 blooms, with leaves badly curled and 

 buds distorted. These plants were also 

 attacked, especially the leaves and 

 buds, by this same mite, T. pallidus. 

 Later, other infested cyclamen plants 

 were received from Branford, Conn. 



January 5, 1914, a New Haven florist 

 brought to my laboratory some snap 

 dragon plants, with leaves badly curled. 

 His whole crop for the season was 

 threatened. The plants were badly in- 

 fested With Tarsonemus pallidus. Now 



